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A joint group of researchers from the Netherlands and the US have smashed the world speed record for a fiber network, pushing 255 terabits per second down a single strand of glass fiber. This is equivalent to around 32 terabytes per second — enough to transfer a 1GB movie in 31.25 microseconds (0.03 milliseconds), or

Researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a contact lens that may help people with colour blindness simply by using a low cost dye, according to research published in the journal Advanced Healthcare Materials. Colour blindness – or colour vision deficiency (CVD) – is an inherited genetic ocular disorder where some people have difficulty

Led by a Stanford biochemist, Impossible Burger is trying to create a veggie burger that is so meaty you won’t notice it’s not real–right down to the fat and connective tissue. And yes, there will be blood. The Impossible Burger is made from plants, but it isn’t meant for vegetarians. Instead, the burger–which was made

It’s not lowering recent growth by some fraction of a percentage point that should bother us, it’s the likely behavior of large-scale finance, now more powerful and with greater concentration of power.

A local Japanese bank says cardless ATMs are well-suited for natural disasters where customers lose their cards A Japanese bank will introduce ATMs that use palm scanners in place of cash cards, it said Wednesday. Design students craft safer ATMs Ogaki Kyoristu Bank said the new machines will allow customers to withdraw or deposit cash

Image via Wikipedia The second most common element in the universe is increasingly rare on Earth—except, for now, in America. About 20 kilometers northwest of Amarillo, Texas, beneath a geological structure called the Bush Dome, lies the world’s largest repository of a substance that, sooner or later, will become more precious than gold: helium. Though

It could be used to create cloaks to protect buildings and structures   University of Manchester mathematicians have developed the theory for a Harry Potter style ‘cloaking’ device which could protect buildings from earthquakes. Dr William Parnell’s team in the University’s School of Mathematics have been working on the theory of invisibility cloaks which, until

Research reveals new neural activity patterns that emerge with long-term learning Mastering a new skill – whether a sport, an instrument, or a craft – takes time and training. While it is understood that a healthy brain is capable of learning these new skills, how the brain changes in order to develop new behaviors is